016 Recently published Ornithological tVorks. 



species from specimens obtained by Mr. A. Everett in 

 Southern Flores : Brachypteryx floris, Orthnocichla everetti, 

 Microeca oscillans, Pachycephala nudigula, Lopho zoster ops 

 suhcristatus, Zosterups crassirostris, and Z. super ciliaris ; 

 also a new subspecies — Cryptolojjha montis floris. A new 

 subspecies of Trochoylossus forsteni from Djampea is named 

 T.f. djampeanus. 



100. Helms on Birds met with in the North Atlantic. 



[Oruitliologiske lagttagelser fra det nordlige Atlanterhav. Af 0. Helms. 

 Vidensli. Meddel. fra d. iiaturh. Foren. i Kbhvn. 1897, p. 21G.j 



Having made several voyages between Denmark and 

 Greenland^ and thus naturally become interested in the 

 birds observed and obtained during his passages across the 

 North Atlantic, Mr. Helms has prepared the present memoir 

 on the subject. The birds met with on the ocean fall natu- 

 rally into two divisions : — Land-birds that are stragglers or 

 migrants, and pelagic birds. After some preliminary 

 remarks, Mr. Helms treats of both of these classes in syste- 

 matic order. The Passeres of his list are 8 in number, 6 of 

 which are European and 2 American. Altogether he enume- 

 rates about 30 species as having been noted or met with by 

 different observers. 



101. Johnston on the Birds of British Central Africa. 

 [British Central Africa : an attempt to give some Account of a Portion 



of the Territories under British influence north of the Zamhesi. By Sir 

 Harry II. Johnston, K.C.B. &c. I vol. 544 pp, London : Methuen, 



1897.] 



Sir Harry Johnston's well-written and beautifully- 

 illustrated volume on the new British Territory, of which he 

 has been the first and very successful Governor, should be 

 studied by all those who are interested in the modern 

 development of Africa. Here, at least, there can be no 

 question that a few short years of good administration have 

 enabled an energetic ruler to bring order out of chaos. But 

 what we are specially interested in is his chapter on the birds 

 of British Central Africa. 



